Welcome to the 21st edition (and the 36th post, which means if you are checking my blog out for the first time, you have missed 35 other pure Shakespeare-shaking literature gold) of the Frictional Blog! Yup, 21! And just for the hell of 21, I'd like to talk about something that I haven't been talking about in quite a while - something more addictive than Pepsi (which I currently am not drinking for the 105th straight day, mind you) and more intriguing than your sister's favorite telenovela - PROFESSIONAL WRESTLING BABAY (that was the slang-ish spelling of "baby"...just saying)!!! Yeah babay, we're doing some WWE talk here, specifically my 2012 WWE Match and Superstar of the Year. I won't be describing my picks that much, but let's just say I have my own ways - my own system, if you will - of picking the top Match/Superstar of the WWE in the last full year, so let's begin, shall we? =)
Oh, and I have written the whole thing in Microsoft Word (it actually took me a whole week - and a whole exam-filled week, nonetheless - to do this), so I'm just gonna copy/paste it here, so if it looks crappy, blame Blogspot.
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For every Pay-Per-View, I picked a Match of the PPV, followed by
two Honorable Mention Matches (with the exception of WWE ELIMINATION CHAMBER 2012, in which I only picked one Honorable Mention Match). Then I
picked my top 3 Matches of 2012 from the 12 aforementioned Matches of the PPV.
WWE ROYAL RUMBLE 2012
CM Punk
(c) defeated Dolph Ziggler in a singles match for the WWE Championship with
John Laurinaitis as the special guest referee, Jack Swagger and Vickie Guerrero
banned from ringside.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Sheamus
won by last eliminating Chris Jericho in a Royal Rumble match. Daniel Bryan (c)
defeated The Big Show and Mark Henry in a Steel Cage match for the World
Heavyweight Championship by escaping the cage.
WWE ELIMINATION CHAMBER 2012
Daniel
Bryan (c) defeated Santino Marella, Wade Barrett, Cody Rhodes, The Big Show and
The Great Khali in an Elimination Chamber match for the World Heavyweight
Championship.
HONORABLE MENTION: CM Punk
(c) defeated The Miz, Chris Jericho, Dolph Ziggler, Kofi Kingston and R-Truth
in an Elimination Chamber match for the WWE Championship.
WWE WRESTLEMANIA XXVIII
The
Undertaker defeated Triple H in a Hell in a Cell match with Shawn Michaels as
the special guest referee.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: CM
Punk (c) defeated Chris Jericho by submission in a singles match for the WWE
Championship with the added stipulation that Punk would lose the title if he
was disqualified. The Rock defeated John Cena in a singles match.
WWE EXTREME RULES 2012
Sheamus
(c) defeated Daniel Bryan 2-1 in a 2 out of 3 Falls match for the World
Heavyweight Championship.
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
CM Punk (c) defeated Chris Jericho in
a Chicago Street Fight match for the WWE Championship. John Cena defeated Brock
Lesnar in an Extreme Rules match.
WWE OVER THE LIMIT 2012
CM Punk
(c) defeated Daniel Bryan in a singles match for the WWE Championship.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Sheamus
(c) defeated Alberto Del Rio (with Ricardo Rodriguez), Randy Orton and Chris
Jericho in a Fatal 4 Way match for the World Heavyweight Championship. Kofi
Kingston and R-Truth (c) defeated Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger (with Vickie
Guerrero) in a tag team match for the WWE Tag Team Championship.
WWE NO WAY OUT 2012
CM Punk
(c) defeated Kane and Daniel Bryan in a Triple Threat match for the WWE
Championship.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Sheamus
(c) defeated Dolph Ziggler (with Vickie Guerrero) in a singles match for the
World Heavyweight Championship. The Prime Time Players (with AW) defeated Epico
and Primo (with Rosa Mendes), The Usos and The International Airstrike in a Fatal
4 Way tag team match to determine the number one contenders for the WWE Tag
Team Championship.
WWE MONEY IN THE BANK 2012
CM Punk
(c) defeated Daniel Bryan in a no disqualification singles match for the WWE
Championship with AJ Lee as the special guest referee.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Dolph
Ziggler (with Vickie Guerrero) defeated Damien Sandow, Tyson Kidd, Christian,
Santino Marella, Tensai (with Sakamoto), Cody Rhodes and Sin Cara in a Money in
the Bank Ladder match for the World Heavyweight Championship contract. Sheamus
(c) defeated Alberto Del Rio (with Ricardo Rodriguez) in a singles match for
the World Heavyweight Championship.
WWE SUMMERSLAM 2012
Chris
Jericho defeated Dolph Ziggler (with Vickie Guerrero) in a singles match.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Brock
Lesnar (with Paul Heyman) defeated Triple H in a singles match. Daniel Bryan
defeated Kane in a singles match.
WWE NIGHT OF CHAMPIONS 2012
CM Punk
(c) (with Paul Heyman) fought John Cena to a draw in a singles match for the
WWE Championship.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Randy
Orton defeated Dolph Ziggler (with Vickie Guerrero) in a singles match. Team
Hell No defeated Kofi Kingston and R-Truth (c) in a tag team match for the WWE
Tag Team Championship.
WWE HELL IN A CELL 2012
The Big
Show defeated Sheamus (c) in a singles match for the World Heavyweight
Championship.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Randy
Orton defeated Alberto Del Rio in a singles match. Antonio Cesaro (c) defeated
Justin Gabriel in a singles match for the WWE Unites States Championship.
WWE SURVIVOR SERIES 2012
Dolph
Ziggler, Damien Sandow, David Otunga, Wade Barrett and Alberto Del Rio (with
Ricardo Rodriguez) defeated The Miz, Kofi Kingston, Team Hell No and Randy
Orton (with Mick Foley) in a Survivor Series Elimination tag team match.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Brodus
Clay, The International Airstrike, Sin Cara and Rey Mysterio defeated Tensai,
Primo, Epico and The Prime Time Players in a Survivor Series Elimination tag
team match. Sheamus defeated The Big Show (c) by disqualification in a singles
match for the World Heavyweight Championship.
WWE TLC: TABLES, LADDERS AND CHAIRS 2012
The Shield
defeated Team Hell No and Ryback in a TLC match, decided by either pinfall or
submission.
HONORABLE MENTIONS: Dolph
Ziggler defeated John Cena in a Money in the Bank Ladder match for the World
Heavyweight Championship contract. Team Rhodes Scholars defeated Rey Mysterio
and Sin Cara in a Tables match to determine the number one contenders for the
WWE Tag Team Championship.
My top 3 Matches of 2012 are:
1) The Shield defeated Team Hell No and Ryback in a TLC match,
decided by either pinfall or submission at WWE TLC: TABLES, LADDERS AND CHAIRS
2012.
2)
The Undertaker defeated Triple H in a Hell In A Cell match with Shawn Michaels as the special guest referee at WWE WRESTLEMANIA XXVIII.
3)
CM Punk (c) defeated Daniel Bryan in a singles match for the WWE Championship at
WWE Over The Limit.
My Superstar of 2012 was ranked using a point system, where each Match
of the PPV contestant received 3 points, while each Honorable Mention Match
contestant received 1. Here are the names, in alphabetical order, followed by their scores.
Alberto Del Rio - - - - 1 - 1 - - 1 3 -
6
Antonio Cesaro - - - - - - - - - 1 - -
1
Big Show, the 1 3 - - - - - - - 3 1 -
8
Brock Lesnar - - - 1 - - - 1 - - - -
2
Brodus Clay - - - - - - - - - - 1 -
1
Chris Jericho 1 1 1 1 1 - - 3 - - - -
8
Christian - - - - - - 1 - - -
- - 1
CM Punk 3 1 1 1 3 3 3 - 3
- - - 18
Cody Rhodes - 3 - - - - 1 - - - - 1
5
Damien Sandow - - - - - - 1 - - - 3 1 5
Daniel Bryan 1 3 - 3 3 3 3 1 1 - 3 3 24
Darren Young - - - - - 1 - - - - 1 -
2
David Otunga - - - - - - - - - - 3 -
3
Dean Ambrose - - - - - - - - - - - 3
3
Dolph Ziggler 3 1 - - 1 1 1 3 1 - 3 1 15
Epico - - - - - 1 - - - - 1 - 2
Great Khali, the -
3 - - - - - - - - - - 3
Jack Swagger - - - - 1 - - - - - - -
1
Jey Uso - - - - - 1 - - - - - -
1
Jimmy Uso - - - - - 1 - - - -
- - 1
John Cena - - 1 1 - - - - 3 -
- 1 6
Justin Gabriel - - - - - 1 - - - 1 1 -
3
Kane -
- - - - 3 - 1 1 - 3 3 11
Kofi Kingston - 1 - - 1 - - - 1 - 3 -
6
Mark Henry 1 - - - - - - - - - -
- 1
Miz, the - 1 - - - - - - - -
3 - 4
Primo - - - - - 1 - - - - 1 - 2
Randy Orton - - - - 1 - - - 1 1 3 -
6
Rey Mysterio - - - - - - - - - - 1 1
2
Rock, the - - 1 - - - - - - -
- - 1
Roman Reigns - - - - - - - - - - - 3
3
R-Truth - 1 - - 1 - - - 1 - - -
3
Ryback -
- - - - - - - - - - 3 3
Santino Marella - 3 - - - - 1 - - - - -
4
Seth Rollins - - - - - - - - - - - 3
3
Sheamus 1 - - 3 1 1 1 - - 3 1 - 11
Sin Cara - - - - - - 1 - - -
1 1 3
Tensai -
- - - - - 1 - - - 1 - 2
Titus O'Neil - - - - - 1 - - - - 1 -
2
Triple H - - 3 - - - - 1 - -
- - 4
Tyson Kidd - - - - - 1 1 - - - 1
- 3
Undertaker, the - - 3 - - - - - - - - -
3
Wade Barrett - 3 - - - - - - - - 3 -
6
My top 3 Superstars of 2012 are:
1)
Daniel Bryan with 24 points.
2)
CM Punk with 18 points.
3)
Dolph Ziggler with 15 points.
So there it is! My top 3 Match and Superstar of 2012! I hope you enjoyed this not-so-intriguing-for-the-wrestling-haters post, as I've been putting a lot - and boy, do I mean A LOT - of effort on this one. So check out all my previous posts, add me on Facebook (say "Hi" to me when you've done so) and follow me on Twitter (I don't tweet often, but when I do, guys like Diamond Dallas Page, Goldust and Vance Archer tweets me back, and you should too). Thanks for reading! I love you guys. Stay safe, and stay awesome! Until next time. Make sure you'll be there.
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